Posted on 06/02/2024 5:36:27 AM PDT by billorites
Whether it is the fountain of youth or the elixir of life, men have travelled the world looking for the key to increasing their longevity.
They should be looking a bit closer to home, according to one leading researcher – although after they do, they might end up taking the years God intended for them.
When it comes to increasing the lifespan of any male mammal, “there is one way you can intervene”: castration.
Cat Bohannon, the celebrated author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, said men went through life “smuggling two little death nuggets”, with research suggesting an orchiectomy can lend a few more precious years.
Speaking at the Hay festival on Friday, Bohannon said castration was a “way to make male mammals live longer”. This effect was observed in American men in the mid-20th century who were institutionalised, usually because of mental illness, and castrated, and in Korean eunuchs. The castrated men lived longer than their “regularly balled peers”.
“You can castrate it. Cut off its balls. Don’t try this at home,” added Bohannon, a researcher with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition.
While it used to be thought that the average lifespan discrepancy was behavioural – “dumb boys doing dumb boy stuff” – it in fact “seems to have something deeply to do with the immune system and cellular repair”, she said. Males “get more infections” across their lifespan and “more cancer, and the prognoses in many cases tend to be a bit worse”.
A 2012 study published in Current Biology found that the average lifespan of 81 eunuchs born between 1556 and 1861 was 70 years, which was 14.4–19.1 years longer than the lifespan of non-castrated men of similar socioeconomic status.
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Must be true. Males without balls don’t risk their lives trying to get laid.
“she is hot”
Not IMO
Make no mistake, these people have absolutely no designs on relinquishing power.....EVER.
And as everyone has their attention trained on an 82 y/o vegetable stumbling around the Whitehouse, the real evil is working 24/7 to ensure that comes to fruition.
Sorry wrong thread
I wonder how much he / she / it paid for those ta tas?
Weren’t the eunuchs living in the palace? ...surrounded by security and with access to better food then the general population?
My grandfather and uncle castrated the young bulls. In fewer than two years, these steers were on the dinner table.
No thanks. I’ll keep my God given jewelry and exit the planet when due. In this corrupted world a few more castrated years isn’t worth it.
I've been around dogs all my life. I've never owned a dog but have enough OJT while growing up and dog sitting for relatives over the years to comment. My observation is big dogs have a life span of around 10 years +/- of 2 years. Big dogs go down fairly quick do to cancer or hip failure when thier time is up.
The “sample” is this “study” is highly questionable…(and rather stupid.)
“A 2012 study published in Current Biology found that the average lifespan of 81 eunuchs born between 1556 and 1861 was 70 years, which was 14.4–19.1 years longer than the lifespan of non-castrated men of similar socioeconomic status. Researchers concluded that the study “supports the idea that male sex hormones decrease the lifespan of men”….”
Meanwhile many of the young women complaining about where are all the eligible men at? Many conflicted women are their own worst enemies.
how do you know she’s a skank, or does not date?
I know you know everything, but really.
That would give new meaning to “go F yourself. “
“Take my testicles...Please!”(?)
They may live longer, but they won’t like it.
So THAT’s why liberal men live longer.
That’s Living?
Um, no thank you.
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